'Natural Land Is Too Weak to Sustain the Great Dharma': Daoxuan's Commentary on the Sīmā and Medieval Chinese Monasticism
One of the most serious problems confronting the Buddhists of the early Tang dynasty was a rapid increase in 'fraudulent monks'. The presence of large numbers of unqualified monks and nuns in Tang society caused not only an overall degeneration of monastic discipline but also the fragmenta...
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Peeters Publishers
2019
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Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 42, Pages: 265-314 |
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